Numerical Simulation + Physics + Persistence = 1 Awesome Basketball Shot.
Wired Magazine’s Rhett Allaine is investigating amazing basketball shots found on YouTube. He takes into account things like the launch position, the ratio of standard deviation, the launch angle (of...
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Study of the Day: Men Aren’t Better at Math After All
Larry Summers, eat your heart out. A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that contrary to what the Harvard president claimed, men and women are, in fact, equally capable at math....
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American Students Are Average
It turns out that a substandard educational system can mess with the intelligence of your kids. Who would’ve guessed it? Every three years, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, a...
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The 10 at 10
Omigosh, a 10 at 10 on a Saturday? Your eyes aren’t fooling you. 1. How pickle juice changed sports forever. 2. Mama Grizzly Inc.? 3. Official protocol for when the aliens arrive. 4. This halftime...
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Love: A Lab Report
Love is not simple nor solvable. Nor is it finite, nor perfect, nor finitely generated, nor even countable. What is it, anyway? Matthew Zaremsky does some calculations. ♦◊♦ Hypothesis: Love. What is...
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Humor: We Defy You To Find A Geekier Image Than This! [@billcosby]
Presented without comment. [Source: Facebook's Black Nerds Network] The post Humor: We Defy You To Find A Geekier Image Than This! [@billcosby] appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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Why Am I Afraid of Math?
Despite parents of the you-can-be-anything-you-want persuasion, Emily Heist-Moss absorbed the misguided notion that math and science were not going to play a role in her future. Why? I’ve spent the...
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You Do the Math
Lisa Hickey, on why the prison system in America just doesn’t add up. I answered the phone, and it was among the worst kind of news you can get. “Are you the family of Joy Hickey?” “Yes.” She was my...
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The Mind of a Venture Capitalist Is a Dangerous Place to Look for Clues to...
Tom Matlack takes a look into his own mind. The results? Well, see for yourself. Why Math Matters To be honest, I didn’t think all that much about math until I was in one of my first business school...
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Futurism: NASA Women Mentor Girls in Science, Math, Tech [@cijithegeek]
Over a decade ago, Mattel introduced Teen Talk Barbie, a Barbie that uttered 4 of 270 sentences. One of her catch-phrases was "Math class is tough." After criticism from the American Association of...
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Coping With Adult ADD
Think adult ADD doesn’t exist? Think again. J.R. Reed looks at life with the illness and shows that it doesn’t have to control your life. Let me dispel a myth right off the top; adult ADD is a real...
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Open Thread: Who Was Your Best Teacher?
A lot of people remember one teacher or college professor who really stood out, who opened their eyes and made them see new things, who instilled a love of a subject in them. In high school, I had...
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The Power of Love Notes
Whenever I think of love notes I think about the one stuck to my parents’ bathroom mirror. I keep the most important writing in my office inside a green folder in the upper right hand drawer of my...
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The Day I Passed Maths (Or, Why Having a Supportive Father Is The Best Thing...
The day I passed maths. “Hey there everyone the man in the video is my dad I year before this video I was at a grade F in maths and in England you need a C…one year before this video I was at a grade...
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Do You Really Have an Influence On Your Kids?
You may think you know the answer, but Mike Crider suggests the answer may not be as compelling as we think. — I have been at my current school long enough to start seeing some of the younger siblings...
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Crunching The Numbers On Sexist Microaggressions
The Petrie Multiplier is the simple mathematical model that explains why gender-imbalanced communities are always going to be unpleasant for someone. Like a lot of guys, I’m sometimes surprised when...
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The Conversation I Can’t Wait to Have With My Kids One Day
Christian Clifton doesn’t have kids yet, but he already knows he wants to be involved in teaching them to love learning — I am not a father yet, but I know someday that will change because I really do...
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The Happiness Formula: A Simple Equation for Creating Bliss
It might seem crazy … but could there be a formula for happiness? Thomas Fiffer does the math. ___ It might seem crazy what I’m about to saySunshine she’s here, you can take a breakI’m a hot air...
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If You’re So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich?
It still remains true, especially for men, that we are valued primarily for what we earn. ___ A Chicago bar that I really like and often write in has a sign in the corner that reads, If you’re so...
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How China Teaches Children Math so Well
A small scale study into possible methods that could be better to teach children math. ––– By Zhenzhen Miao, University of Southampton and David Reynolds, University of Southampton There has been...
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